Pet Peeves
What makes you angry? Get it off your chest so we can laugh at your impotent rage.
( , Thu 1 May 2008, 23:12)
What makes you angry? Get it off your chest so we can laugh at your impotent rage.
( , Thu 1 May 2008, 23:12)
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if it's any consolation...
chickenlady, as someone who works as a copy editor (what you brits would call a sub editor), i feel your pain. those errors and more are found in horrifying abundance in the work of supposedly-professional writers for major newspapers. Its* depressing.
--tuqueboy
*an example of one of my pet peeves -- people not knowing the difference between it's and its.
p.s. have you read eats, shoots and leaves?
( , Wed 7 May 2008, 4:35, Reply)
chickenlady, as someone who works as a copy editor (what you brits would call a sub editor), i feel your pain. those errors and more are found in horrifying abundance in the work of supposedly-professional writers for major newspapers. Its* depressing.
--tuqueboy
*an example of one of my pet peeves -- people not knowing the difference between it's and its.
p.s. have you read eats, shoots and leaves?
( , Wed 7 May 2008, 4:35, Reply)
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